The Control Revolution How the Internet Is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know

by Andrew Shapiro

Dissidents around the world use the Internet to evade censorship and get their message out. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 189162086X
• ISBN13: 9781891620867
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The Third Wave

An excellent book for grasping the power of the net. Allows room for discussing cyberspace's ablility to work for "good" or "evil".A libertarian approach that guides readers to think indedendently of governments, corporations and other influencing entities.

A penetrating survey.

The Internet is putting individuals in charge of changes in our culture and society, providing a radical shift in who is in control of information and resources and prompting ripples of change in the structure of society. Shapiro argues that individuals and companies who come to control the Internet environment will influence lives and the future in this penetrating survey.

Exciting Reading About the Effects of the Net and the Law

"The Control Revolution" is a top-notch book about the effect of the Internet on people, business and the law.The author, Andrew Shapiro, is a lawyer with a talent for writing about legal issues in an easy-to-read style.Shapiro ... explains that, "the Internet, contrary to what some say, doesn't make it impossible for lawmakers and law enforcement officials to do their jobs."

An unvested, brillant framework for understanding the Net

What a relief to find a book that is not breathless, self-serving, half crazed and half baked. This is the book many people have been waiting for. I especially have been looking for something that addresses the digital democracy issue responsibly and provocatively. I've wondered how federally collected information about countless topics, when made freely and accessibly available over the Net, could redefine radically its relationship to the public.

An Instant Classic

Several years from now it will become clear that "The Control Revolution" itself played an important role in defining, questioning and, ultimately, influencing the role of the internet in everyday life. You must read this instant classic.